I recently got an email that I enjoyed a lot promoting this seminar: Dealing with Difficult People (“Techniques for handling difficult people with tact and skill”).
Never again fall victim to those who love to make life miserable for the rest of us. This training gives you concrete techniques for dealing with difficult people in the workplace and at home. It provides specific strategies for getting adversaries to cooperate … bullies to back off … wallflowers to open up … chronic complainers to quiet down.
Check out the site. I like the list of undesirables and how they single out both “Yes” people (“They agree to any commitment, yet rarely deliver. You can’t trust them to follow through.”)...and then “No” people (“They are quick to point out why something won’t work. Worse, they’re inflexible.”) What about those awful “Maybe” people!?
And I’m fascinated by the portion of the day titled “Be less of a target for difficult people.” Man, this sounds like David Brent territory.
The ironic part is that the attendees of this seminar are probably the most difficult people imaginable: those who are convinced that everyone else is the problem.
kev
on 13 Oct 06“The ironic part is that the attendees of this seminar are probably the most difficult people imaginable: those who are convinced that everyone else is the problem.”
Amen!
James Collins
on 13 Oct 06Christ, they’ll give a seminar on anything.
Donna French
on 13 Oct 06I printed this & gave a copy to my boss.
Daniel
on 13 Oct 06@37s, your code isn’t checking the URL field of this form for “http://”. So clicking on “Kev” or “Donna French” for example tries to open their sites in this directory.
Sorry to bug report here. But since you just switched to your own blog engin, maybe it’s worth mentioning.
Jamie Huskisson
on 13 Oct 06Sounds brilliant – I could’ve used this seminar 6 months ago!
Shame they don’t have an offering for this seminar on their audio conferences.. though they do have ‘dealing with difficult customers’ here: http://www.pryor.com/mkt_info/audioconf/AudioConf_DiffCustomers.asp
Might be worth a listen
Joshwa
on 13 Oct 06Spoken like someone who’s had the good fortune of never having worked in a truly dysfunctional workplace…
Some (not all) of those descriptions are, sadly, dead-on.
Joshwa
on 13 Oct 06Also, I don’t think some commenters have caught on that you’re actually making fun of the seminar description!
brad
on 13 Oct 06I printed this & gave a copy to my boss.
Have you been fired yet?
Justin Ward
on 14 Oct 06The ironic part is that the attendees of this seminar are probably the most difficult people imaginable: those who are convinced that everyone else is the problem.
So true.
Roman Rytov
on 15 Oct 06A Suidward-type is probably a no-people. Here is a chunk of advice on how to manage them in a team: How to manage Squidward in your team
Doug
on 15 Oct 06I notice that there’s no name attached to this post. Is it an ad?
JF
on 15 Oct 06I notice that there’s no name attached to this post. Is it an ad?
Look up at the title of the post. Next to it you’ll see purple/pink type that says “Matt.”
Donna
on 16 Oct 06Brad – no, I didn’t get fired. LOL He actually asked if it was for real. He’s well known for being ‘difficult’...(hint: Google vs. ...)
Spud
on 16 Oct 06Wish I could have attended. How about one on dealing with difficult bosses?
Doug
on 16 Oct 06The author name doesn’t appear in IE6 for this post, in fact no name no date. It looks OK in Firefox.
Ben
on 17 Oct 06The author name doesn’t appear in IE6 for this post, in fact no name no date. It looks OK in Firefox.
Good catch Doug, also thought I’d add that the same problem shows up in IE7.
Scott Mackenzie
on 30 Nov 06Sorry, had to say. That was gold! (The david brent comment)
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